Academic reputation affects citation count

By Geoff Maslen – in University World News.

An academic’s reputation plays a key role in generating increases in a scientific paper’s citation count early in its citation life cycle, before a tipping point, after which his or her reputation has much less influence relative to the paper’s citation count.

This is the intriguing finding from a study by a team of collaborating social science analysts in Belgium, Finland, Italy and the US.